Local Tyranny and Tuition-Free College in San Antonio
San Antonio Mayoral candidate Bert Cecconi is using billboards to tell voters about his idea for a tuition-free college program. However, Cecconi proposes to “force” builders and citizens to pay for the program through a city ordinance that will impact negatively on the building industry.
Cecconi has 300 billboards around San Antonio that preach his tuition-free junior college idea. However, the devil is in the details, and his ads don’t explain how to fund this program.
"The way I propose doing it (funding the program) is passing a city ordinance that says all new construction, homes, and buildings in San Antonio, will have solar panels," Cecconi, an 83-year-old retired dentist said. "CPS would install the panels, and CPS will own them."
CPS is the City’s biggest moneymaker, so all the money would go to the city government, and they would administer the new program. It would create more city bureaucracy.
In November 2018, Democrat Joe Gonzales was elected Bexar County District Attorney with the financial backing of liberal billionaire George Soros. Gonzalez takes office officially on January 1st, but there seems to be some evidence of a more liberal, perhaps anti-police, atmosphere taking hold at the DA’s office.
Even though the United States has opted out of the Paris Climate Agreement, liberal San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg plans to support it. In a draft of the City’s proposed plans to support climate change remediation goals, much of it focuses on ending gasoline-powered private and commercial vehicles, which will affect the transportation and mobility freedom of all citizens.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the San Antonio police chief for what he says are violations of the state’s immigration law targeting “sanctuary cities.” Paxton accuses Chief William McManus of violating SB-4, the anti-sanctuary law, when he refused to turn over migrants in a human smuggling case to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on January 2018.
